'Why should I move' Bob Crow refuses to leave council home despite earning £145,000 a year

UNION boss Bob Crow has ­refused to move out of his council house despite bringing in £145,000 a year in wages and expenses.

Bob Crow says he feels 'no moral duty' for him or his family to have to leave their council house [EXPRESS]

The rail union chief, who lives with his family in a subsidised property, was adamant that he had “no moral duty” to move to a private home.

When asked why he had not bought his own home when many other people needed council housing more than him, he said he was ­“being ­victimised”.

The 52-year-old RMT union general secretary said: “I have no moral duty at all. I was born in a council house, as far as I’m concerned I will die in one.”

He was speaking as he ­announced that his union could stage a week-long strike over Transport for London plans to close ticket offices across the ­Underground network.

When LBC Radio presenter ­Julia Hartley-Brewer suggested his north London home could be given to a needier family on the housing list, the union boss said: “Yes, I could buy my own place but why don’t you ask the rest of my family, who live at home with we, whether they should have to move as well.”

Mr Crow said if he did move out, he might be criticised for ­betraying his working class roots.

Bob Crow lives with his family in the subsidised house [PA]

Bob Crow will not move out of his north London council house [EXPRESS]

I’m the only one down my road who pays their rent and I’m being victimised

Union rail boss Bob Crow

He added: “I’m the only one down my road who pays their rent and I’m being victimised.

“Why is it just down to me to buy a house?

“Why should my family, who have lived there for 30 years, with all the friends they’ve got, have to move because of the job I’ve got?

“If I moved out of my house ­tomorrow, the first thing you’d say is Comrade Crow leaves his roots.”

Mr Crow said the reason ­for the shortage of social housing was former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s policy of allowing council tenants to buy their own homes.